Russia's communication watchdog, Roskomnadzor, opened "administrative proceedings" Monday against Facebook and Twitter for non-compliance with country™s data laws, Interfax news agency reported.
Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov is quoted as saying that U.S. social media giants have a month to...

Gold slipped to its lowest in almost a month on Monday as a firm dollar and greater risk appetite outweighed support from an expected pause to increases in U.S. interest rates.
Spot gold was 0.1 percent down at $1,279.48 an ounce, having touched its lowest since Dec. 28 at $1,276.31. U.S. gold...

The European Union has imposed chemical weapons sanctions on nine Russian and Syrian officials, including the chief of Russia™s GRU military intelligence agency.
The European Union accuses those sanctioned of being responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria and for "possession, transport...

Andrew McCabe, the FBI's No. 2 official whom President Donald Trump publicly criticized for alleged political bias, stepped down from the bureau Monday, several weeks ahead of his retirement, an FBI...

Russia's communication watchdog, Roskomnadzor, opened "administrative proceedings" Monday against Facebook and Twitter for non-compliance with country™s data laws, Interfax news agency reported.
Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov is quoted as saying that U.S. social media giants have a month to comply or face legal proceedings.
According to Roskomnadzor, Facebook and Twitter have not explained how and when they would comply with legislation that requires all servers used to store Russians' personal data to be located in Russia.
Russia has introduced stricter internet laws in the past five years, among other things requiring search engines to share encryption keys with Russian security...

The European Union has imposed chemical weapons sanctions on nine Russian and Syrian officials, including the chief of Russias GRU military intelligence agency.
The European Union accuses those sanctioned of being responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria and for "possession, transport and use" of the nerve agent used in poisoning Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter...

Discussions between the U.S. and China over allegations that the latter has engaged in decades of intellectual property theft have gone nowhere, Bloomberg News reported Monday.
The topic was the top of the agenda in recent trade talks between the two, but there was little in the way of constructive progress over what to do, said the report. In public, China denies the accusations of IP theft,...

Turkey is ready to take over security in the Kurdish-controlled Syrian city of Manbij, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.
Erdogan's office says the president spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump by telephone Sunday, days after an Islamic State attack in the city killed 19 people, including three U.S. service members and an American military contractor.
Erdogan told Trump the attack...

A suicide truck bombing on a police academy Thursday in Colombia killed at least 21 people and wounded at least 68.
Colombian President Ivan Duque canceled a meeting that was to have been held in western Colombia and rushed back to visit the blast site near Bogota.
œThis is an attack not only against the young, the security forces or the police. Its an attack against society, Duque...

Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don't worry.
For the past 290 million years, large asteroids have been crashing into Earth more than twice as often as they did in the previous 700 million years, according to a new study in Thursday's journal Science.
But no need to cast a wary glance up. Asteroids still only smack Earth on average every million or...

China's economic czar, Vice Premier Liu He, will travel to the United States later this month for the second round of negotiations aimed at resolving the ongoing trade war between the global economic giants.
Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng told reporters in Beijing Thursday that Liu will visit Washington on January 30-31. He was invited by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade...

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday narrowly upheld a Trump administration plan to lift sanctions against three companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Eleven Republicans in the Senate joined Democrats in an effort to enforce the sanctions against the giant aluminum firm Rusal and two companion companies, but their effort failed on a 57-42...

President Donald Trump's choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency says he does not believe global warming is the "greatest crisis."
Andrew Wheeler said at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that while climate change is a "huge issue," it is something that needs to be addressed globally.
A report by the EPA and several other government agencies concluded last year that climate...

Facebook says it is investing $300 million over the next three years in local news programs, partnerships and other initiatives.
The money will go toward reporting grants for local newsrooms, expanding Facebook's program to help local newsrooms with subscription business models and investing in nonprofits aimed at supporting local news.
The move comes at a difficult time for the news industry,...

The British parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly defeated Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan for Britain's departure from the European Union, leaving in doubt how it would depart the continent's 28-member bloc of nations by the planned March 29 date.
The House of Commons, on a 432- 202 vote, rejected May's call to approve what she said was the "democratic decision" of voters in a...

Russia's communication watchdog, Roskomnadzor, opened "administrative proceedings" Monday against Facebook and Twitter for non-compliance with country™s data laws, Interfax news agency reported.
Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov is quoted as saying that U.S. social media giants have a month to...

Gold slipped to its lowest in almost a month on Monday as a firm dollar and greater risk appetite outweighed support from an expected pause to increases in U.S. interest rates.
Spot gold was 0.1 percent down at $1,279.48 an ounce, having touched its lowest since Dec. 28 at $1,276.31. U.S. gold...

The European Union has imposed chemical weapons sanctions on nine Russian and Syrian officials, including the chief of Russia™s GRU military intelligence agency.
The European Union accuses those sanctioned of being responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria and for "possession, transport...

Andrew McCabe, the FBI's No. 2 official whom President Donald Trump publicly criticized for alleged political bias, stepped down from the bureau Monday, several weeks ahead of his retirement, an FBI...